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Subject: Bungie Weekly Update: 11/9/07

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Aw, they remembered my birthday! Thanks Lukems! >_>

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  • 11.10.2007 10:40 PM PDT

games never over til its over

ZOMG ROCKET RACE HOPPERZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GUNNA BE FUN AS HELL

  • 11.10.2007 11:09 PM PDT
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I'm sorry, but this update really sucked. All it did was fix a couple of things that a few players where complaining about. It didn't really update anything that people really wanted. A couple questions I'm wondering that will help 80% of the people out that are on here. When are the new maps out and when is clan support coming? Because this game won't make it a year without clan support.

  • 11.10.2007 11:27 PM PDT

I miss my SWAT! Can't wait for downloadable content. Can you give us a date? Also now that you broke up with Microsoft I'm hoping that the DLC will be free, I know Micro$oft still has some rights and they are greedy but I know Bungie isn't. It's so stupid how we buy a game and have to pay for features after we already bought it

[Edited on 11.10.2007 11:46 PM PST]

  • 11.10.2007 11:41 PM PDT
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Posted by: Walter Jocketty
Anyways..what's up with the ratings system? anyone want to explain this?

I start as level 19 in Team Slayer
17 kills, 11 deaths on high ground. team lost, didn't level up
14 kills, 4 deaths on Narrows. Team won, didn't level up
7 kills, 10 deaths high ground. Team lost, didn't level up (obviously)
12 kills, 3 deaths on Snowbound. Team won, didn't level up
13 kills, 8 deaths on Guardian. Team won, leveled up! finally
Now I don't have much of a problem with that, but then...
Very next game on Snowbound, I get 9 kills and 9 deaths for an even kill/death spread..and I go down to level 19 again! Are you kidding?
So that's 6 games, 72 kills, 43 deaths, for a combined k/d spread of +29...and I'm the same as I started?

I don't mean to complain, but what's up with this?


IK!!! My friends and I just played team slayer for about 5 hours strait. We won 21 games out of the 31 we played. I started out at lvl 23 and ended at 26. Explain to me how the heck this is freaking possible? There was a time when we had as many as 6 wins in a row and I still didn't level up more than one level and as soon as we lost the first game I would go back down a level. And it wasn't about the stats either. It didn't seem to make a difference whether I went positive 7 or negative 3.

  • 11.10.2007 11:43 PM PDT

Men, we've led these dumb bugs out to the middle of nowhere to keep from getting their filthy claws on earth, but, we stumbled on to something that's so hot for them, that they're scrambling over each other to get it. Well, I don't care if it's God's own anti-son-of-a-b*tch machine, or a giant hola-hoop, we ain't gonna let them have it. What we will let them have, is a belly full of lead, and a pool of their own blood to drown in!

Yay for Bungie stopping the Oddball stand-offs in Snowbound and Epitath doorways!!!

  • 11.11.2007 12:52 AM PDT
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Is the very much win music from the 'Believe' trailers in the soundtrack?

  • 11.11.2007 1:19 AM PDT
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Posted by: Purpleorange
"There are a couple of still-secret, still-in testing adjustments and changes that come to classic Halo vehicles."


Carrier Hogs.


I agree we need the transport hog
that was the first thing i looked for in forge
other than that sweet deal on the update

  • 11.11.2007 1:22 AM PDT

Halo 3 running 3 times faster than Halo 2! Wow according to 360Voice the game seems slowly dying! (Source : http://www.360voice.com/game.asp?game=Halo%203 ). So who's right? Moreover the engine is too long to find a game, are you sure there's more games played than ever? Maybe too much game types...

  • 11.11.2007 6:20 AM PDT
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You mentioned forge updates, and there are a few things that I noticed that could need attention. First, starting frag grenades do not get picked up by the candy moniter and are not cleaned off of the map. This has some amusing effects, but probably not what you intended. Also, all maps have the same starting default weapons and grenades. This makes this option the exact same as selecting starting weapons of assault rifles and frag grenades, which is cool 95% of the time, however forge created maps could use thier own default weapons.

7hanks Bungie!

  • 11.11.2007 6:45 AM PDT
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You really, really suck at updates right now. You had something so good but then messed up yet again, you're just making the playlists worse and worse for the more serious players among us, and updates like this are just gonna mess everything up:

1. Social doubles must have been one of the best social playlists there are, its great for warming up and the bet thing you can play when you have a guest around;
2. Please repeat what you said about slayer, Guardian's already in TS so you can't act like you're doing something when you're not.
3. This really hacks me off: SWORDS IN LW! WTF!!! Ranked maps are for serious games, not -blam!- like this, now every time people veto one of your other gametypes on LW like this they'll get stuck with it, you should honestly leave swords for unranked rumble pit, come on, are you guys all high or something?! Also, 5 people is better than 6 as proven from the Beta, people like it more so what are you thinking?!
4. Quit skipping around the updates that actually count and fix the glitches instead of just adding stuff people dont care about to pretend you're actually trying right now.

You'd better do something fast cos I'm telling you theres a reason everyones playing CoD4 instead now and reverting back to Halo 2, please release a decent update for once, you must all be insane.

  • 11.11.2007 6:45 AM PDT

Has the changes been added then because i don't think they have.... because lone wolves is the same.... tbh?

  • 11.11.2007 7:36 AM PDT
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When will the Shoulders be fixed? Anyone?

  • 11.11.2007 9:09 AM PDT
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Hey Bungie, uh the screeshot thing in the H3 section of your website is kind of screwed up. When I try to view a screenshot, I get taken back to the first screenshot, or a random screenshot that I've already seen. So if you could be so nice as to iron that out thad'd be great. Thanks.

  • 11.11.2007 9:12 AM PDT

What are hoppers?
Will the maps be free?

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  • 11.11.2007 9:20 AM PDT
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man cannons in forge will be great. i was talking to someone about that yesterday and now i find its gonna happen! would we ever get the chance to post our custom games/forged maps in a matchmaking list to fill our partys and test our maps?

  • 11.11.2007 9:25 AM PDT

O.D.S.Ts!
We are GREEN and very, very MEAN!
Prepare to Drop
9/22/09

cool so ur saying we can put(a spasific number per map)Mancannons by useing forge?THATS HELLA KOOL

  • 11.11.2007 9:56 AM PDT
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You really, really suck at updates right now. You had something so good but then messed up yet again, you're just making the playlists worse and worse for the more serious players among us, and updates like this are just gonna mess everything up:

1. Social doubles must have been one of the best social playlists there are, its great for warming up and the bet thing you can play when you have a guest around;
2. Please repeat what you said about slayer, Guardian's already in TS so you can't act like you're doing something when you're not.
3. This really hacks me off: SWORDS IN LW! WTF!!! Ranked maps are for serious games, not -blam!- like this, now every time people veto one of your other gametypes on LW like this they'll get stuck with it, you should honestly leave swords for unranked rumble pit, come on, are you guys all high or something?! Also, 5 people is better than 6 as proven from the Beta, people like it more so what are you thinking?!
4. Quit skipping around the updates that actually count and fix the glitches instead of just adding stuff people dont care about to pretend you're actually trying right now.

You'd better do something fast cos I'm telling you theres a reason everyones playing CoD4 instead now and reverting back to Halo 2, please release a decent update for once, you must all be insane.


go play cod4 then, no one cares so please just gtfo

  • 11.11.2007 10:00 AM PDT

Maybe the Dingo ate your babay!

Posted by: SuperGrover1337
Art Vandelay is George Castanza's alter-ego who was an architect. Absolutely genius.

Also genius, rocket race matchmaking.

I left arrow three Bungie.


nice seinfeld quote.... im a big fan and didnt even catch it.

  • 11.11.2007 10:01 AM PDT

Maybe the Dingo ate your babay!

can ANYONE actually say what was changed for team slayer?

  • 11.11.2007 10:02 AM PDT

Fun fact: While these people tend to use the term leet, or "1337" to describe something elite (or really, really cool) it really means "I'm a dumbass who doesn't know how to write in English. Please kill me."

Can people please stop crying how they no longer equate for the "serious gamer".


Bungie has to accomodate more new players with what people would call "lower skilled games".
Also with more weapons, playlists have to be slightly different so they can use at least 70% of them, otherwise, you may as well play halo 2.

  • 11.11.2007 10:04 AM PDT

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I had to come back by and say that although I know you basically added a 6th man and Rumble Swords to Lone Wolves so that everyone could get their achievements easier, I wish that Bungie would STOP giving in to all the cry babies that want nothing more for than for Halo 3 to become Halo 2.

Now that Lone Wolves has as many people as the Social Rumble Pit, why are we still calling it Lone Wolves?

I know I'm not the only person alive with an opinion, but I personally thought that the name of the playlist and the amount of players (Lone Wolves, 5 players) was genius, especially on these slightly larger maps. It made for a much newer balance of gameplay and called for players to think about when and where to strike... not just respawn and see 7 red dots and throw a few nades for a few easy kills like in Halo 2.

And come on people... these maps are NOT that much bigger.
It's the fact that the ramps are WIDER and the areas are much more OPEN in scope and HEIGHT.
You can't honestly say that Guardian, Snowbound or Epitaph are any bigger than say, Ivory Tower.

  • 11.11.2007 10:35 AM PDT

Just ballin' with powah, dawg.

they could add the rocket hog

  • 11.11.2007 11:25 AM PDT
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One question I believe Nungie is hiding from What is next maybe a HALO4 instead of "Finish the Fight" we start a new one! Besides the flood ins't finished, There is more rings, Brutes on other Planets, and the mystery olf the forerunners isn't done like where they went! Also I wonder what new maps there are, and HOW much there are.

  • 11.11.2007 11:28 AM PDT
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nice update rocket race rules

  • 11.11.2007 11:43 AM PDT